It isn't often we hear good news from the Hanford, but the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the nation's first commercial advanced nuclear power reactor would be developed on the massive federal reservation north of Richland, Washington.

The Ever Given cargo ship's grounding in one of the narrowest parts of the Suez Canal underscores the vulnerability of the world's supply chain. The reverberations will be felt for months as consumer demand, suppressed by the COVID pandemic, ramps up

Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson's $33 billion plan to remove the lower Snake River dams is unwise. However, if he pushes it, he needs to include the impact of breaching dams in his home state which completely shutoff salmon and steelhead migration. Simpson

Would you believe in the future when a cement truck shows up to pour your foundation or patio, the mixture could contain ground up wind turbine blades? As a part of new agreement between GE Renewable Energy and Veolia North America, old blades

Finally, the Federal Aviation Administration cleared Boeing's revamped 737 Max to return to service and Seattle Times aviation writer, Dominic Gates, reports its first flight is scheduled for Dec. 29.

To the average American, China's control of the world production, processing technology, and stockpile of critical metals is not their concern. However, to our military and high-tech leaders, it is a very big deal.

What happens in China doesn't always stay in China. We learned that a couple of years ago when the Chinese stopped buying massive volumes of the world's used paper, plastics, and textiles-and again last March when the coronavirus escaped

If Americans are to receive all of their electricity without coal and natural gas by 2035, they will need nuclear power. Washington's Clean Energy Transformation Act passed earlier this year by the Legislature leans heavily on renewable fuels

Far too few people remember the 1972 Seattle billboard: 'Would the last person who leaves Seattle please turn out the lights?” The reference was to the massive job losses at Boeing when the supersonic transport project collapsed and the company, then

Solar power is getting a lot of attention these days as our country strives to reduce greenhouse gases. Sunny cities like Honolulu and Los Angeles have ramped up solar power production. However, in cloudy coastal municipalities such as Seattle